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“The strength of the public, Alex Soderlund, Robert Beric, Wabhi Khazri measured it in the derby, as before them Hervé Revelli and the heroes of the legend, in matches far more difficult than the walks of health against the Lyonnais de l era which gave buttons to Fleury Di Nallo, Raymond Domenech and Bernard Lacombe. This strength of the public, we often felt it also in sports halls. This Saturday again in Saint-Just-Saint-Rambert where in his Bonbonnière the premises of La Pontoise have climbed sixteen points in a quarter time with a three points to buzz their neighbors of the BCM. We are not straying from football, rest assured. This parenthesis that could have opened in Roanne, Saint-Chamond, Montbrison or Feurs highlights a fervor that bears the name of Sainté and has won over many stars driven by a shared passion, with the jersey of the Clermont Jaunards, the blue for girls from the French football team or, in another life, red for CASE volleyball players. The Loire is still the champion.

Here, we love sport, the stars who are not necessarily artists, but craftsmen of labor drawn from the heart. Here, we like effort, not cheaters, we like victory as elsewhere, but we accept defeat if it has been fought to the end of its strength. So, the stands rise, twelfth or fifteenth man of eleven players who understand that even without the refrain of Liverpool, they will never walk alone.

It was this communion so natural here that made Anthony Lopes and Denayer lose control in the derby. It was she who capsized Geoffrey-Guichard even more than the torn point which made Sydney Govou smile, a lodger as we like them. makes you smile. My friends from Le Puy sent me a sign from Saint-Étienne with the message: “I love you as much as a goal from Khazri in the 95th”. They didn’t win, you have to tell them “. Twitter had also opened the floodgates, but, among the reactions we especially remembered that Peter Boz quickly assimilates the speaking of gones, the subtleties of a language, pernicious message that the disciplinary commission will dissect “The atmosphere was great, except the guys entering the lawn ”.

Here is not Paris

We will see what follow-up will be given to this evening, initially festive with an osmosis translated by Camara who one could believe descended from the kop, “proud of the supporters and of being from Saint-Etienne”. As if it had only taken a match, unlike any other, to find a sacred union that made Claude Puel breathe “It is important that the supporters see that their players are involved”. Yes, but that cannot be enough and we would like the big boss of the sportsman like his leaders to understand that, far from reducing the Covid fracture, they have so far aggravated it by an excess of precaution that we will assimilate to an excess of protection.

While the derby attracted 33,643 spectators, the average attendance remains low and is not only linked to the results. The team has been cut off from its base, a heresy in Saint-Étienne where the transmission of passion cannot be virtual. Communication is about crossing paths, talking to each other, getting to know each other, it is transmitting. By shutting down the training center this summer that should have been one of regaining breath, by over-controlling the media through select media, focused sites, ASSE is losing its soul. Here it’s not Paris. In the Galtier or Gasset era, there were half a thousand supporters in Etrat. They were half a dozen Thursday and Friday.

Trained at the Monegasque discretion, reinforced by a Lille school which is not Lensoise, reinforced by a Lyon culture at the antipodes of the roots which nourished the legend of the greens, Puel did not have the codes and no one thought or dared give them to him. He was reinforced in a role of new Sphinx by forgetting that it is the victories that protect from the scratches. “

Didier BIGARD

to summarize

“If the derby attracted 33,643 spectators, the average attendance remains low and is not only linked to the results. The team was cut off from its base, a heresy in Saint-Étienne where the transmission of passion cannot not be virtual. Communication is crossing, talking, knowing each other, it is transmitting. By closing the training center this summer which should have been that of regained breathing, by controlling excessively the communication through selected media, oriented sites, ASSE loses its soul, “says Bigard.

Laurent HESS